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The New Leader Book Page Johnny Comes Limping Home By JAMES RORTY tsmW JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME. By Dixon We,,,. ,i w f%fhn Co., N*w York. 677 pap... 13.00. ' QUE of the chief valuta...
...It is like a .i«p/i smaaamsaggg...
...Site is also a factor in the public reputations of labor unions...
...In other words, he is not aware of the Utopian character of his plan...
...It was an important step forward...
...There is no attempt at dramatics or intellectual kibbitzing...
...Finally, in 1901, 21 dele-from six cities met in New York »hd organized the United Cloth Hat and <*P Makers of North America...
...r °ot of the cap industry came the millinery establishments...
...Tha construction of an executive council, for instance, as tha real seat of world power, controlled by tha great powers .which waa the nucleus o. tha league, of tha Nations and is also envisaged by the great powers of today as the nucleus of tha coming world organization, would ba thrown overboard...
...For the rest, all nations could ba allowed without danger to tha world peace to enjoy the fullest sovereignty so far as their internal affairs ara concerned snd to develop their own polities), economic and social institutions without outside interference—so far as these institutions sre not conducive to wars...
...As an attack on a much-needed job of social and political analysis, it isn't even a good beginning...
...a Communist attempt to seize leadership was pushed aside, and the raids of racketeers successfully resisted...
...Barnch's having a slight far reasons that careful cultursl anafytlf would doubtless explain, most prise books ara execrable in style...
...A number of unions formed in the early 19th century are listed, and their constitutions and rules described...
...Thar* may, Indeed, he eleae to reach Home secret weapon* medley— Or typescript of a Gocbbal* speech, Which would be far mora deadly...
...The new international was determined **» civilise" the industry and, despite many, setbacks, it has succeeded in its objective...
...are in fact t« &*, same lavel of disastrous medi-•uhfh Mr...
...In 1932, without the assistance of government bodies, the union won a great victory in the New York market...
...Conflicting claims over jurisdiction were under tuch circumstances inevitable...
...It used to be said of the old featherweight champion, Jem Driscoll, that pound for pound he was the best fighting man in ring history...
...Wecter had on his mind with respect to his subject, I dehydrated about a gallon of this liquid, but nothing showed, not even ideological trace elements The noodlea are better, but the collection suffers from tha author's apparent inability either to omit anything or to place his selections in significant context...
...The first locals struggled for a few years, and then disappeared...
...Green has written a straightforward account of the history of on* of our better unions...
...But is this fault so gravet Haa there aver been any inspiration in tha field of human relations without a Utopia T How, for instance, would mankind have been able to approach a solution of the grave social problems which arose with tha capitalist society if there had navar bean any socialist Utopias...
...Thus there would be no sense in giving to any nation mora voting power than to any other nation...
...I.N the last twenty years, the union has faced many problems which tested the mettle of the leadership and the rank and file...
...All human urges and Institutions would remain as they are, but one little change would occur, caused, say, by soma Wellsian comet...
...Both effort...
...It received a serious setback *• a result of the verdict against it in lbs famous Danbury hatters' case...
...At first, millinery workers were taken into the cap makers' locals, but beginning with the chartering of Local 24, in 1910, the millinery workers have had locals of their own...
...Weighing only 126 stands, he never attracted the attention or the prises of many ordinary heavyweights...
...The cap-making industry has always been a seasonal one, and for ¦¦any years the employees were recruited from recent immigrants...
...tively thick noodle soup, in which countless noodles of quotation and anecdote are floated in a thin stock of verbal and ideological cliche...
...As source material it is mildly inter-etting and useful to both the general reader and the student...
...AH nations, or at least all major nations, would suddenly lose their urge to retain or expand their power by their own might, their interest in spheres of influence or preponderance, and their ambition to form empires...
...Two national unions developed, and in 1896 the hatters and finishers combined into the United Hatters of North America...
...Marching Home...
...The Not-So-Mad Hatters By PHILIP TAFT THE HKADWEAR WORKER...
...Thie is indeed precisely the service one expected to toul'iwrfonned in Johnny -Gome...
...SlJPPOSK th* world would one beautiful day undergo one single change...
...With which he'a ser* to catch it...
...the men's hat division of the industry i» made up of two segments, men's hats »ad caps...
...It was an uphill fight, *"* the struggle complicated by numerous ideological controversies which ths immigrant labor movement fte time...
...By Charles H. Green...
...In such a state of mind, they would certainly not object to surrendering their arms and aims factories to a "World Security Institute" whose principal function would he to watch anxiously all symptom* which might provoke strife between nations, remove them by virtue of its unlimited authority and power, and swoop down about any recalcitrant perpetrators of "symptoms of war...
...It was the fight against prison labor which brought the hatters' unions together on t national basis...
...By Linus R. Fike...
...and in the following year, with the help of the NIRA codes, it managed to organize the other principal markets...
...Hatters were among the first workers in the United States to organise...
...Conditions **r* Very bad...
...It it a simple story of an organization which represents the belt iu the labor movement...
...98 page...
...For exactly tha same reasons tha world ia today in dira need of inspiring international Utopias, —- Brief Case mwm Hltlar h reported to hove de velooed • phobia of briefcases •lace Ma wthmpt oaoa Hi life ^¦¦Wewo' l*otn...
...A PLANK FOR ORGANIZED PEACE...
...Richard Armoor...
...In the effort to find out what, if anything, Mr...
...A short and satisfactory history of the workers and their union has now been written...
...QUE of the chief valuta of the writing of history, one is told, is the helo it fives to living men w their struggles to deal with the present and in forest* the future...
...Unhappily as an hjitorian Mr...
...Gestapo chief* and diplomats Who coma to aee the Fuehrer, Please check year briefcae* with yeer bate, Aad ba will fad securer Far wha'caa tall what larka theraia Of bomb, gran ad*, or hatchet...
...Wecter is little better than an industrious compiler Despite its length and ita heaped up minutiae, his book makes about as much of tdent in the problem of the returning soldier, what he can do for himself and for the country and what can be done with and for him as does Barney Birwh'i program ior nconiuumi iu, > pott* teonomjr...
...While not so large as many, the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers Inter-nttional Union (AF) is member for member as good as any union in the country and better than most...
...Attacks upon its existence were repelled...
...Attempts at organization wert for a time unsuccessful, although temporary locals were formed as early *• the 1880's...
...United Hatteis, Cap mnd Millinery Workere International Union, New York, 1944...
...Moreover, the World Security Institute being a perfectly neutral organisation whose actions would ba released by a carefully constructed automatic mechanism, there would ba no need for any nation to wield mora power within the International organization than any other...
...Not only were conditions improved, but s committee of adjustment was set up to decide all disputed issues...
...What aaarlng acid, strong as sin...
...In 1915, the union succeeded in gaining the first contract with the Ladies' Hat Manufacturers Association which eventually led to the complete organization of the machine-made hat industry in New York City...
...The amalgamated union hat found new strength, and in a few years succeeded in organizing the most important Arms in the inen't hat industry...
...Hours have been shortened, ***es increased, charges eliminated, and *• contracting problem placed under ^abol...
...It isn t poisonous Ilk* the ideologicsl borsrbt the Commies sre dishing out, but neither is it very nourishing...
...The author of this "plan for organized peace," a lawyer, distinguished member of the U. S. Supreme Court bar, high governmental official with valuable experiences in government-sponsored cooperatives, and at present a Navy Lieutenant, has not given any inkling of the fact that his plan presupposes tha simultaneous loss of the urge'to power in all major nations...
...Ber-sard De Vote to tha contrary, "When Jahany Comas Marching Home" is—a Ufe-ln-Amenc* prise book—is no exception to this rule...
...Wecter reports the aftermath of three wars: the American revolution, the Civil War, World War 1, and concludes with some documentation of soldier attitudes in this war...
...The existence of two unions in the headwear industry had been a serious source of difficulty for the unions and their workers...
...He also gives us some useful factual material on the plana of the War Department to put ita well-conceived classification aystem into reverse, operate it from Separation ('enters similar to the Induction Canters where the returning veteran was received at s recruit, and provide him with valuable help in adapting-his war-gainsd training and experience to civil employment...
...Through the efforts of the American Federation of Labor, and especially William Green, the two uniont amalgamated into the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union...
...Philosophical Library, New York, 1943...
...For the next •even years, the union made steady progress...
...I'hilip Taft is the author of Economics of Labor and co-author with Selig Perlman of History of Labor in the United States, 1896-1932.] A Timely Peace Utopia By ALFRED BRAUNTHAL NO NATION ALONE...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 45
